I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

I love my son more than any of you can imagine.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

To be the best you have to work overtime.

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America.

Never doubt God's desire or ability to help you.

I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.